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The SAVE Act puts new requirements on individual voters to prove their citizenship status. The requirements are easy for some people to meet but for others they're very difficult. Required documentation includes things like a birth certificate or passport. Neither of those are free to acquire and they aren't convenient to acquire either. This effectively amounts to a "poll tax" where people have to spend a non-trivial amount of money [and time] to exercise their voting rights.
Jim Crow regulations were slightly more racially biased in that white citizens were often given exceptions for things like poll taxes or literacy tests.
The two cases, however, are quite similar in their intent.